Herman Melville Quotes - Page 13

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• Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

  Herman Melville

  Sympathy, Firsts, Strange

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.455

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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

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  Men, Strange, Affair

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

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  Inspirational, Worship, Certain

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.131, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

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  Army, Order, Cities

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• What like a bullet can undeceive!

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  Deception, Bullets

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.15, Penguin

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• Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

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  Men, Catholic, Mind

  Herman Melville (1963). “Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

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• I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

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  Calm, Madness

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.168, Northwestern University Press

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• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
  Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

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  Ocean, Dark, Blue

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick”, p.184, Tyché

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• There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

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  Men, Sea, Cities

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.418, Northwestern University Press

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• War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

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  Determination, War, Monsoons

  Herman Melville (2016). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter”, p.68, Courier Dover Publications

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• How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

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  Heart, Cells, Punishment

  Herman Melville (1968). “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life”, p.125, Northwestern University Press

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• To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

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  Spring, Citizens, Guarantees

  Herman Melville (2015). “Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville”, p.170, 谷月社

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• In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

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  World, Sail, Weary

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.545, Velvet Element Books

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• Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

  Herman Melville

  Light, Pistols

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.523, Velvet Element Books

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• To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

  Herman Melville

  Left Handers, Literature, Lefties

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.520, Library of America

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• Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

  Herman Melville

  Flames, Whales, Giving

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.156

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• We cannibals must help these Christians.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, Helping, Cannibal

  Herman Melville, D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Moby-Dick (Unabridged) + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick”, p.48, e-artnow

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• Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Space, Soul

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.476, Herman Melville

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• In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

  Herman Melville

  Emotion, Subtle, Insight

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• That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books

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• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

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  Life, Country, Thinking

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

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• When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Ocean, Heart

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.459

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• Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Believe, Looks

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.460

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• The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

  Herman Melville

  People, World, Transcendentalism

  Herman Melville (2017). “Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

  Herman Melville

  America, Australia, Sides

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.121, Velvet Element Books

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